December 2011
55 posts
"You've been working all day. You shouldn't have...
Imagine a TV channel that learns what you like to watch”-LoveFilm(frightening) Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment »
Medellin, Colombia - giant outdoor escalator http://t.co/WbiYgeLR via: @ShoreRobert
Medellin, Colombia - giant outdoor escalator
“A poor area of Medellin, Colombia now has a giant outdoor escalator. The area is on a steep hillside, and the escalator will save residents from a strenuous uphill hike.” Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment »
Fuck completely forgot…. Merry Christmas @DespairBot (sorry)
For “A” Adam Curtis’ “All Watched Over By Machines…” doc. One of the very few good bits of 2011 TV. Luckily it was great @NIAbbot @lbc973
RT @GammaCounter: Total strangers stare at each other across subway tracks, Upper East Side. 1 crosses tracks to punch other: http://t.c …
e-petition: Thatcher state funeral to be...
Link to e-petition
Russian Cult Worships Gadget from Rescue Rangers?
“Gadget Hackwrench. Animated mouse from the Disney animated series Chip n’ Dale Rescue Rangers. Pilot. Mechanic. Inventor. Central figure of worship in a Russian cult. Wait, what? Yes, apparently their love for Gadget burns with such unbridled passion, a group of people in Russia have built an entire religion around her likeness. They pray to posters of Gadget, write songs about her, and...
When Siri turns evil...
via: Luke Robert Mason Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment »
The architecture of a "Live Girl Booth" - How a...
Via: Corinna Kirsch - hereisafantasy Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment »
Optical - Slip Thru
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The London Perambulator
“Directed by John Rogers John Rogers’ film looks at the city we deny and the future city that awaits us. Leading London writers and cultural commentators Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Russell Brand explore the importance of the liminal spaces at the city’s fringe, its Edgelands, through the work of enigmatic and downright eccentric writer and researcher Nick Papadimitriou - a man...
IBM predicts that within 5 years "Junk mail will...
“… Imagine a future where some sources of unsolicited advertisement produce such useful and perfectly timed ads, that you would signup. A world where virtually ever text message or email pushed at you is so relevant that this “service” starts feeling like a best friend. Here at IBM we are working on sensemaking technologies where the data finds the data, and relevance finds you....
Lady Gaga's Facebook & Twitter pages hit by iPad...
“Multiple messages, seemingly from the singer, offered “free iPad2’s to each one of you”. Attached links directed more than 100,000 of her followers to a site requesting personal details, possibly as part of a phishing scam. The 25-year-old, Twitter’s most followed user, later tweeted: “Phew. The hacking is over!” Her Facebook page, which is...
RT @GammaCounter: Having the wrong FB friends could sink your credit, when banks go snooping: http://t.co/L4f0h7yR via @filmdrblog @wwjimd
As Banks Start Nosing Around Facebook and Twitter,...
“… A new wave of startups is working on algorithms gathering data for banks from the web of associations on the internet known as “the social graph,” in which people are “nodes” connected to each other by “edges.” Banks are already using social media to befriend their customers, and increasingly, their customers’ friends. The specifics are still shaking out, but the gist is that...
Taliban seized and set on fire around 300 cellular...
“PESHAWAR: The Taliban on Sunday seized and set on fire around 300 cellular phones and over a dozen computers from tribesmen in Wana, headquarters of South Waziristan. Tribal sources said the Taliban had earlier issued leaflets in Wana in which they termed cellphones with camera as the source of promoting obscenity and vulgarity and banned the use of such mobile phone sets. The Taliban, who...
JobCentrePlus could consider re-re-branding to The...
and take inspiration from this can of pineapple slices: Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment »
RT @steveaylett: @mo_ali My reflection is becoming transparent. Other than that all’s well.
The gamification of sex: App Measures How Good You...
”A Swedish ad agency came up with an innovative way to promote safe sex among young adults. Ester handed out 50,000 condoms that were embedded with a unique QR code. When the barcode is scanned, it installs an app on your smartphone that can measure factors of your love making session such as sound, duration and rhythm. Each time the app is initiated, it reminds the user to put on a condom...
The Haxan Cloak
Link to The Haxan Cloak FACT Mix Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment »
alley posts by James George "an evening walking...
“an old tourist movie from the future. filmed in an evening walking the streets of Barcelona with a handheld 3d scanner.” Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment »
P&O advertising banner looks a bit like a campaign...
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Added humour… spam spelling error of ogre… Orge: “The Orge is a 53 km long river in France” http://t.co/GZOl5Xqo http://t.co/CuWsVdGF
What a brilliant spam bot bio: "Who knows more...
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Compilation of the "speechless expression of...
via: The Atlantic / Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment »
"Banksy is clearly a guffhead of massive...
“Here’s a mystery for you. Renegade urban graffiti artist Banksy is clearly a guffhead of massive proportions, yet he’s often feted as a genius straddling the bleeding edge of now. Why? Because his work looks dazzlingly clever to idiots. And apparently that’ll do. …As if that wasn’t irritating enough, Banksy’s vague, pseudo-subversive preaching is often...
Andrew Kötting - Gallivant (1996)
Link to watch as YouTube playlistFrom Wikipedia: “A “highly idiosyncratic” documentary, it records a journey the director took clockwise around the coast of Britain accompanied by his 85-year-old grandmother, Gladys, and his seven-year-old daughter Eden. Eden was born at Guy’s Hospital, London, in 1988 with a rare genetic disorder – Joubert syndrome – causing cerebral...
Upskirt Photographers Use Silent Smartphone Apps
“Most cameras and mobile phones in Japan automatically make shutter sounds when they are used to take a photograph… iPhones sold in Japan have been altered to keep the shutter sound on. However, as the Yomiuri has pointed out, some smartphone applications can disable shutter sounds.A search for the Japanese words “muon” (silence)” and “kamera” (camera)...
Judge tells court reporters: 'Twitter as much as...
“Journalists no longer have to make an application to tweet, text or email from courts in England and Wales following guidance issued by the lord chief justice, Lord Judge. “Twitter as much as you wish,” he said as he delivered the guidance which takes immediate effect and covers the use of electronic devices including phones and small handheld laptops for live text-based...
Esc and Ctrl: Jon Ronson investigates Twitter bots
from YouTube description: “Jon Ronson visits web analyst Tim Hwang (Web Ecology Project), who along with his colleagues has developed bots for the social media service Twitter. The bots generate random tweets in an experiment to see if they could steer the conversation amongst real human tweeters.” Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment »
I think I could get into this dismissing Kiva lark
(Dismissing Twitter promoted tweets) Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment »
Remote Listening Applications for Mobiles
Image from Flickr P^2 - Paul “…Surprisingly, “roving bugs” are currently legal for use by citizens in the United States and are sold online, ostensibly to monitor children or “catch cheating spouses”. They are even popular enough to warrant a list of the “best”. Many of the commercially available programs require physical access to be installed. This is used as a defense by the...
RT @MissEllieMae: Just received an extraordinary spam email: ‘I am Mr. Jude Pierre, personal air assignment pilot to the late Muammar Ga …
A short film about Twitter - by...
Via: Jeff (“imac hunt”) Hunt Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment »
Agency Chokolate seek extras for Coldplay video:...
“Are you an edgy “Hoxtonian type” who wants to go topless and “get sprayed”? If so, you could be in a Coldplay video! This is the casting note going around: Hey beautiful people, Chokolate are casting a Coldplay video & looking for edgy “Hoxtonian types” from 18-35 yrs as extras for a warehouse party scene tomorrow in a church in Chiswick. Shoot will end by midnight. People must...
Hipsters & technological regression as a source of...
“…I wrote a few weeks back about technological regression as a source of authenticity for members of the contemporary hipster subculture (I say “contemporary” because hipsters emerged out of the 1950s beatniks, the original hipster subculture). So lets apply that logic to the case of Plan-It-X and take it a bit further. In the case of Plan-It-X (and other DIY record labels),...
RT: @cameronreed: Killing Spree Mix by Babe Rainbow 12.9.11 http://t.co/NDXeuwMZ
Neuroscientist Henrik Ehrsson uses mannequins,...
“It is not every day that you are separated from your body and then stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife.
But such experiences are routine in the lab of Henrik Ehrsson, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, who uses illusions to probe, stretch and displace people’s sense of self. Today, using little more than a video camera, goggles and two sticks, he has...
Captive Media's interactive toilet games (Black...
Reminded me of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror episode ”15 Million Merits” ”The second episode is a satire on entertainment shows and our insatiable thirst for distraction set in a sarcastic version of a future reality.” (Channel 4 description) Available on 4oD Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment »
Turkish woman sues hackers for stealing her online...
“A Turkish woman has sued unidentified hackers who allegedly stole her online gaming characters, which she said took years to shape for commercial purposes. …Çetin says the case is no different from a traditional theft and this is the reason she demanded an investigation. She said she also notified the producers of the game, which has millions of users in Turkey, but they have not...
Admin Assistant - Job Application questions (Kill...
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Film 2011: “Claudia Winkleman makes noises at a not-famous man who knows about films”
Not to be confused with @mrkimnoble who is @ICALondon RT: @ArtTherapyBrain: Kim Noble: The woman with 100 personalities http://t.co/DdCSvzzZ
Whispering Community - Customer services roleplays
From Wikipedia’s entry on Whispering:
“Whispering has also become popular on the video-sharing website YouTube, where a community of users has emerged[3], in which users upload videos of themselves whispering quietly, some with the intent to relax the listener, and others simply whispering about no particular topic. These whisper videos frequently forego the visual aspect of the video...
'The Flaw' Trailer (Dir. David Sington)
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“An exhibition of imagined post-apocalyptic visions of well-known locations in Manchester” http://t.co/6Ufykiqq via: @roshimibon
"Those who love life do not read..."
“Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.” H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq, P.30 Posted via email from Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope | Comment » ...
Saw a few audio recorders for Mark Fisher’s (@kpunk99) USELESS talk @GoldsmithsUoL is it uploaded anywhere?